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One Book To Rule Them All

In a poll I posted to help us all get to know each other I asked the question:If you could only ever read one book forever, what book would you choose?

Now many of you did say you’d rather not live, and though I’m sure many others felt torn between that option and having to chose, they did choose. Thanks to my fellow blogger friend Aurora who reminded me to share these wonderful choices with all of you, I have compiled the following montage.

There can only be one, one book to rule them all!

Part One of Three:

The number one answer given un-specifically to edition 8 times (12 total)

The Bible

This version is the most read and highly reviewed.

The longest compilation of short storiesNow that was very hard to find out… So instead I just picked 10 famous short story authors and then found the one with the longest compilation, and the winner was…

Earnest Hemingway: The Complete Short Stories

Anything by Philip Roth

Well that leaves it pretty open, so here is one of Philip Roths most well read and a best reviewed books.

Nemisis

A Larousse Dictionary

Smart choice 🙂 but didn’t specify which, as it turns out Spanish is the most popular one. Great way to learn a new language, or get smarter at your own.

Swan Song

by Robert R. Mc Cammon

This book is one of five that got 2 or more votes, looks like I may need to read it 🙂

The Game of Life and How to Play it

by Florence Scovel Shinn

Another smart choice.

Absalom Absalom

by William Faulkner

I’ve been wanting to read this book

The General – William Booth

I had to guess at this one a little but I found this book:

The Authoritative Life of General William Booth

Ship of Brides

by JoJo Moyes

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis

I would go for the complete Chronicles of Narnia set (I think that counts)

The Biggest fattest book I can get my hands on:The World Record for longest novel is“À la recherche du temps perdu” 3036 pages, but that’s in french, but it was not published in one volume so it wouldn’t technically count for this person choice. However this book was chosen in the poll say yay for Proust!

“Zettels Traum” is the longest recorded book every published in one edition 1536 pages… but it’s German so I gotta pick an English one as well.

“Sir Charles Grandison” 1647 The longest English one volume book.

The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh:
Tales & Poems

by A. A. Milne

A charming choice!

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

One of five to get multiple votes.

Bellydance for Beginners…

This is the all I could find, or the closest…

I’d continue to write my own books, so that I’d always have something new

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

A great choice, a good way to insure I’d get through it 🙂

A Prayer For Owen Meany

by John Irving

After reading about this book I am very interested in reading it myself 🙂

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Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

**Deadly Messengers

by Susan May

The Art of Happiness

by Dalai Lama

Very wise choice, but I think Pharrell would be infinitely stuck in my head 😀

The Lord of The Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

This book got 3 votes, one of only 5 to get multiple votes.

I can certainly attest to why, these are phenomenal books!

I just LOVE all the variety!

Some make sense, some are strange, some are very intriguing…What do you think of these choices?Find out more tomorrow in Pt. 2

I said tea because you can have more than one a day……but we both know coffee is my medicine! And picking ones favourite novel is like asking a mum to pick their favourite child. The answer is the second child. Because I’m the number 2! Just saying….cheers,H

Your post reminds me to take out and read the copies of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, lying buried deep in my big pile of unread books for the last three years.
As for my absolute favourite, I’d go with The Mahabharata as my choice. That epic, those characters, and the philosophy of Geeta!

A good selection. When I said I Larousse I wasn’t referring to a language dictionary. Though that would be interesting. I n French larousse has two sections, one for all words’ definition and one for history, art, geography. It’s like a small one-volume encyclopedia. I don’t know the equivalent in english. Webster maybe? 🙂

Ok. Next time you’re in a bookshop (which is probably twice a week) check out if they have an english version of the Larousse I described. I have several of those in French, every since I was a kid. They are fascinating. 🙂

I love to read, write, and drink coffee. They are the bread and butter of my soul. I really enjoy discussing books, poetry, and the like. Another huge passion of mine is dancing, and for fun I am an avid volleyball player. I live in the NW and I am a hybrid city/country lover. I enjoy spending time hiking through our beautiful Oregon forests, and riding horses at the family farm. I also equally enjoy strolling the downtown waterfront with a latte, gazing the city lights, and/or sipping a Café con leche at my favorite Cuban eatery.
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